10 Things You Need To Know About Bitcoin #4: Digital Gold | 016
The 2-word elevator pitch for Bitcoin: digital gold.
One Way Ratchet · Trent Nutting, Dan Felger
November 9, 202334m 51s
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Show Notes
Dan and Trent break down a very effective mental model for thinking about Bitcoin.
Episode #4: Digital Gold
- Bitcoin can be tough to explain
- “Digital Gold” is a very effective mental model. Elevator pitch for Bitcoin
- Why did gold emerge as the dominant monetary asset everywhere in the world
- Hard money humans cannot corrupt. Plus it is very durable and also divisible
- Gold worked as a store of value in the analog world, but we now live in digital age
- Demographics: world becoming more and more digital every day
- Now 8 billion people everywhere in the world can own digital gold
- The countries with the fastest growth rates need it the most
- If all Bitcoin does is become digital gold, it is a 20x return
- But Bitcoin is actually 100 times better than gold, so it is not stopping there. Bitcoin will absorb value from every asset class in the world
- Today’s song: Golden Years by David Bowie
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